Caraminal----fish

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Mark & Helen Syrett
Thu 3 Aug 2017 20:08
We have now been anchored here since Sunday afternoon and we are about to enjoy our fifth night.
The only unenjoyable part has been watching the tuna boats being unloaded. There was one boat here on Sunday evening, another arrived on Monday morning and a third on Tuesday. They have been unloading ever since for about eight hours a day.
The tuna are netted out of the hold using the derricks on the ships——four per ship
dropped onto conveyor belts and up into refrigerated lorries
Some of the tuna are dropped from the nets into open articulated grain type lorries. This has been going on for four days and still the tuna is coming out of the holds. All quite distressing.

Meanwhile the mussels are being harvested from the vivieros, the floating platforms arrayed all over the ria and causing sailing hazards! These together with the tuna are a very, very big part of the economy here with local factories processing the fish.
The mussel boats all have cranes on them. The mussels are either cleaned and put into net bags on the boat
and then into lorries
or loaded straight from the boat into open articulated lorries
presumably to go for processing.
Quality control for size, wastage etc was very evident with random samples being taken and analysed. Apparently mussels from the Ria de Arosa are highly valued but the restaurant would not sell me any last night———not sure why but then we haven’t seen anyone else eating them. No “R” in the month ??
On a more positive note there is the opportunity to buy fish on a daily basis from the market
this shows the beach, the marina and anchorage and the three tuna boats
The Spanish love their statuary
 









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